LIAS light – Towards the ten thousand species milestone

By

Rambold, Gerhard
Elix, John A. (John Alan), 1941-
Heindl-Tenhunen, Bärbel
Köhler, Thomas
Nash, Thomas H. III
Neubacher, Dieter
Reichert, Wolfgang
Zedda, Luciana
Triebel, Dagmar

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2014

Original Publication

Nature conservation

Volume

8

Pages

11-16

Subjects

biodiversity informatics , characters , Identification , trait database

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers 2012-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.8.6605

 

Abstract

Over the past 12 years, the lichen trait database LIAS light as a component of the LIAS information system, has grown to a considerable pool of descriptive data based on 71 different qualitative, quantitative, and text characters, for nearly 10.000 lichen taxa, being phylogenetically arranged according to the MycoNet classification. It includes information on morphological, ecological and chemical traits. Multilinguality or internationalization options have become a central challenge of the project. At present, 18 language versions of the database and web interface exist. LIAS light data are accessible in DELTA format and to be used locally and web browser-based, via NaviKey applet.